Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary

It was as though a sharp little gimlet had run into solid congealed mass

Agatha Christie. And Then There Were None. pp.130-1 (1939)

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The box was close on every side, with a little door for me to go in and out, and a few gimlet holes to let in air.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)

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this was quelled by Mutt, who turned a pair of eyes like gimlets on the young workmen in the front row,

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Ambroise Paré. The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey (published: Latin in 1579, English in 1649), p.425, https://archive.org/stream/workesofthatfamo00par#page/425/mode/1up